after seeing the danish movie "worlds apart" and being told on this board that it is acceptable in some foreign countries, how common is it and where?.
We have had a few locally,(Mid-Kent), in the congo I exited early last year the School overseer wears a beard, and gives away talks.
as I posted on another thread or two,I wore a beard here in U.K for thirteen years, but they wouldn't have me on a Circuit assy programme wearing it in 1988.
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p.s How do they feel about underarm hair on Sisters,I think it is SEXY!
please contribute to this "book".
help someone understand what jehovah's witnesses are all about..
Jeez Farkel!
Get to it man.you've got a potential audience of 7 million!
And think of the film rights (?)
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please contribute to this "book".
help someone understand what jehovah's witnesses are all about..
If somebody actually wrote the book,and I nominate the Great Farkel,do I have a seconder for that proposal? Carried unanimously coz, three people put their hand up and we don't take any dissenting votes,the biggest proportion of readers would be DUBS!
They would love to try to make sense of their religion!
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just another controlling feature of a mind controlled cult.
they always dictate that everyone should look like clones of one another - the same.
from early on i remember my elder dad in the late 1970's telling me as a teenager , " you are an elders son ; little brother jimmy over there looks up to you as an example.
Thinking back, I just laugh about the silliness of rule making,pharasee style,that they did.
At one D.C they stopped one young bro. from being an attendant coz. he had on a "blazer" and trousers,not a suit. This was at a time when crumpled suits were the fashion,so they allowed a young guy with a crumpled suit,looked like a bloody scarecrow,to attend in place of the first guy.
What a load of utter TWATS!
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just another controlling feature of a mind controlled cult.
they always dictate that everyone should look like clones of one another - the same.
from early on i remember my elder dad in the late 1970's telling me as a teenager , " you are an elders son ; little brother jimmy over there looks up to you as an example.
Damn I gave in !!
I was counseled about my long sideburns in the early seventies so I shaved them (a bit).
I then grew a beard in 1975,not a word was said,apart from one of the most conservative and critical sisters,who said she liked it !
I kept it until 1988,giving public Talks etc,but was told I couldn't go on an assembly item,field circus experiences, with a beard,so I shaved it off.
One of my friends said later, "but you had the experience when you had a beard,so whats the big deal?"
I wish now that I had told them to go jump,but I saw things differently then,I didn't think having a beard or not was a big deal.
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P.S I would like to grow a beard again,but my Wife hates grey beards,which is what it would be now,not the fearsome ZZ Top style black beard I sported in the seventies !
my mother-in-law had a death in the family... a sister-in-law.
she wanted to go to the gravesite services - so i got to play chauffeur.. we got there, she got re-acquainted with the relatives, and the preacher showed up - with his wife.. he gave the services - which only lasted about 10 to 15 minutes.
i guess in a way... it was very similar in content - to a jw funeral... not much about the person... and a lot of emphasis on jesus - giving his life - so that we may be resurrected (not sure if that was an earthly - or heavenly resurrection... i kinda got the impression it was earthly).
Good on yer Jim,
I went to a Dub funeral this morning! One of my old mates from my teenage years,fellow partner in crime,including smoking on the quiet,has lost his Mother.
She was a Dub for over sixty years and much loved by her family and congo.
To give credit where it is due,the Bro giving the talk did talk a lot about her,how she was loved by all including her Neighbours,he gave them credit too for caring for her,of course there was a bit of infommercial,but not too much.
The only sad thing was that my old friend said I was only one of two people to go visit him in the two weeks since she died. So much for looking after orphans,he might be fifty-seven but he is an orphan now.
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i live in the northeast and regularly hear people say they want to move far away, like florida where it's warmer.. i hear people complain about the taxes in their state and how they wish they could live elsewhere.. would you leave your area if you could?
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I'd like to live in a diferent "state",this house is in shite order!
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apparently serena`s heart tattoo wasn`t supposed to be seen (the nape of her neck ) i wonder if she has any more hidden elsewhere ?
i`ve always suspected the williams sisters didn`t really have a clue about what their religion teaches lev.19:28 either it`s the religion of their parents,or it`s cool to be different and stand out among your peers,a fad etc.some of the comments made by them exposes their ignorance.. smiddy.
Ive got a "W" on each bum cheek so that when I bend over it spells WoW !
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we all know how the wt.
deals with smoking.
have your personal attitude towards such changed ?.
I think I smoke after sex,but I've never had a good look !!!
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here lately, i have just been wishing that i could just fast-forward through my remaining years on earth and just die to get this nonsense all over with.. i have only myself to blame.
if i had gone through with my attempt to leave this hokey religion about sixteen years ago when i attempted to--before i got married and had kids--then maybe i wouldn't be teetering on the very slippery edge of sanity.
instead i punked out, buckled under the threats of shunning and guilt of abandoning family members, and so here i am--looking into the mirror every morning wondering when the nightmare is going to end.
I too feel tremendous sympathy for you,what an awful position to be in!
I think it could work to put into practice what an earlier poster suggested,you take the family study,set the subjects,and make sure they all scripturally oppose what the WT says,as has been mentioned, Jesus is mediator for ALL mankind, Paul said in Galations don't go beyond what we taught you,ask the kids as homework to find Paradise Earth mentionerd in the NT etc. etc.
If you need more material you have a whole archive of it here!
Good luck,and keep your spirits up,if you still beieve ,then pray about it,if you don't believe then pray anyway.
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